"I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision."

Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian Politician

History, Decision, Future, May

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"I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision."

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"But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence."

Hugh Miller, Scottish Scientist

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"Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need."

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"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

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"Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation."

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"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day."

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"It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments."

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"Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains."

Ta-Nehisi Coates, American Writer

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"Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews."

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